Palace fan

100% this You can probably count on the fingers on one hand the strikers that are going to score wherever they go, whatever the system. Look to the upside and consider why they might be failing. Pay for someone knocking in 20 in his last season and you're quite possibly paying 40 million too much. I give you Solanke. Playing in a team that works to his strengths and he's gone from 6 goals to 19 goals in a season. Same player of course just confident and in the right system.

Ah but that's my point. I'm personally dubious that the next Olise, Eze and Wharton would necessarily choose you over Palace. They came our way as they knew they'd play football. The bigger club is not always the bigger draw and sometimes less so. To get these players you need to demonstrate to them that they would play regularly. There are of course plenty of up and comers that do sign for super clubs of course - some get lost and some simply don't develop as quickly. Palace - and I'd have Brighton and Bournemouth in the same category - actually occupy a strong market position for attracting talent.

I must be careful not to spam this thread. You should have a good feeling - he's perhaps our prime asset. But far from convinced he'll agree to leave. He's Palace through and through and one way or the other has spent well over half his adult life at the club and is on record as saying that his one regret was leaving when manager and it wasn't a mistake he intended to make again. That said Howe left Bournemouth for Burnley right about the same time and then left again.... Interesting bit though is this. Newcastle and Palace are not on the same spot on the food chain. Yes you might like to snap up the next Guehi, Eze, Olise and Wharton but chances are you won't be able to offer them game time and that limits your appeal. Don't think it necessarily works that if you get Dougie, you also get the players he would have signed for Palace. There are drawbacks to being an aspiring super club

Sort of agree. This involves though Olise deciding to stay because someone somewhere will trigger his release clause - quite possibly multiple clubs. For a Palace fan the nonsense with Chelsea this time last year is a source of hope. He could do it again - Glasner helps. Money is not the draw with him - it's exposure and playing footie week in week out. So this Palace fan hopes optimistically as possibly. The other thing is the better sources say he has quite a demanding list of requirements - he's very switched on about his career apparently: first team football - rules out maybe City (Pep) and Arsenal (Saka) settled environment - rules out Liverpool and Man U - Spurs dubious CL/European football - thinking Newcastle might well fit the bill - Villa seems a long shot tbh Though if City came calling he would of course go. I'm not quite that deluded.

Interesting one this. Freedman has been personally involved in persuading all these players to come to Palace. With Wharton part of the draw with Dougie was apparently he'd been tracking Wharton since well before he broke into their first team. Personal touch. But.... Palace slowly, slowly have been on a buy to sell model. It's taken time because when he came there was no money, serious FFP issues and no one to sell. Part of the pitch has been come to Palace and you play first team football. That's why Guehi, Eze, Olise and Wharton chose us. There comes a time, though when you do in fact need to sell. It's all very well holding Zaha to ransom - that was a very special relationship - but to attract new blood you need to show that Palace isn't a prison but a pathway to glory. Yep, one more season with this team and European football is more than plausible but there's an obvious ceiling and we have too many players that would enhance any CL squad (note squad!!). We need to sell to get the next gen. The trick will be -and Parish is smart - not to do a Southampton or possibly a Brighton and lose them all at once. One a season - tops two. Our assets are Eze - right age for a move Olise - by consent generally considered the best player we've ever had Guehi - has that young English leader home grown thing - most likely to leave Andersen - the underrated one but actually the match if Guehi and wrong age bracket Doucoure - the forgotten one - our season fell apart when he was injured not when Olise and Eze were out Wharton - early days but just wow Richards - may look odd on this list but pedigree and only held back by the two ahead of him. Expect his tock to rise next year (sick note alert) Mateta - carefully left off the list Next note is that 10 years' later we're about to build our mainstand - obvious money pit and obvious scepticism about ring-fenced funding. Someone needs to go this season to avoid 4 leaving next!

Of course it does - spent a long time in Gosforth and while I'm about as far from local as you can get I understand. The reference was to PSG and that I imagine is where he sees himself - Toon are a few years out from that, no? Is that realistic? Consider that he has only just over one complete season in the PL and has the best goals per minute in the league with pens stripped out bar Haaland. Only just getting going imo - the goals are a new development this season. Last time around he had same figures for assists - he's adding to his game all the time. One footed (very) but there's been a few good's like that. And you need to remember he's been producing these numbers for Palace

Hi there Long time lurker - signed up because I suspect there'll be a few Palace rumours going and I've always enjoyed this forum. The Olise injury record is fine imo - got one horror muscle injury in game and then was rushed back by Roy. Not a sick note. Think your concern should be other. If he goes to you it would be with a release clause as a stepping stone club I very much suspect. He'd fill a hole for you on the right and would be a major upgrade on anything you have but he'll be one to pass through and not build a club around. The boy is ambitious with talent to match. Of all our buys he came as the least heralded but was the only one to insist on a release clause. Yep, you're a big club and will get bigger but I rather think he's aiming higher than you're likely to go in the near foreseeable. Clue is he speaks French!!! Don't take this as an attitude problem. The attitude is great - you don't get voted players' player of the season if it isn't and Freedman specialises in bringing players with the right attitude, which is partly why he so's successful.